Cyriopagopus
Cyriopagopus is a genus of southeast Asian tarantulas found from Myanmar to the Philippines. , the genus includes species formerly placed in Haplopelma. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.
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- Instance of
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- Parent taxon
- Theraphosidae
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- Cyriopagopus minax MHNT Thaillande.jpg
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- P105
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- Description
- Taxonomy
- Distribution and habitat
- Toxicity
- Species
- In synonymy
- Transferred to other genera
- [[Nomen dubium|Nomen Dubia]]
- References
Cyriopagopus is a genus of southeast Asian tarantulas found from Myanmar to the Philippines. , the genus includes species formerly placed in Haplopelma. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.
==Description== The species formerly placed in Haplopelma are medium to large spiders; for example, Cyriopagopus schmidti females have a total body length, including chelicerae, up to , with the longest leg, the first, being about long. The carapace (upper surface of the cephalothorax) is generally dark brown. They have eight eyes grouped on a distinctly raised portion of the cephalothorax, forming a "tubercle". The forward-facing (prolateral) sides of the maxillae have "thorns", which act as a stridulating organ. The first leg is usually the longest, followed by the fourth, second, and third. Mature females have an M-shaped spermatheca. Mature males have a spur on the forward-facing sides of the tibiae of the first pair of legs and a pear-shaped palpal bulb with a wide, curved embolus.